Opened 2 years ago

Closed 2 years ago

#5200 closed enhancement (fixed)

Installation instructions from source are missing section about GNU Autotools

Reported by: simonseyock Owned by: robe
Priority: medium Milestone: PostGIS 3.2.3
Component: documentation Version: 3.2.x
Keywords: Cc: simonseyock

Description

Currently the docs state that you can clone the source, install dependencies and the run configure.

This is not true, as the configure script is not (anymore?) provided via code, but just the configure.ac files etc.

I would add a new section to the documentation where the necessary commands are listed. For me it worked with the following ones, but I am really not sure what was necessary (apart from libtoolize and autoconf)

libtoolize --force
aclocal
autoheader
autoconf

Change History (7)

comment:2 by simonseyock, 2 years ago

just noticed there is note about autogen.sh below the section for configure. Can this get moved in front of it?

comment:3 by robe, 2 years ago

the sh autogen.sh is only needed if building from git. Not building from the source tar ball.

I'll update the instructions to clarify that.

comment:4 by robe, 2 years ago

Component: postgisdocumentation
Owner: changed from pramsey to robe

comment:5 by simonseyock, 2 years ago

thanks, it would be great if the note would appear before the section about configure, I think.

comment:6 by robe, 2 years ago

I put a note in the installing from git part so it's clearer - https://postgis.net/docs//manual-3.3/postgis_installation.html#PGInstall

I'll close this ticket out after I've backported to 3.2.

comment:7 by Regina Obe <lr@…>, 2 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

In 34edf66/git:

Put in autogen.sh as part of git clone steps. Closes #5200 for PostGIS 3.2.3

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